Comfort Manyame is the senior manager for research and technical strategy at Mid-South Synergy Electric Cooperative. His work, which includes GIS, utility vegetation management and lightning strike analysis, has been widely published, including in Esri’s “GIS Best Practices for Municipalities, Cooperatives, & Rural Electric Utilities” and RE Magazine. He serves on the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association’s Analytics, Resilience and Reliability Member Advisory Group. Manyame holds a Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in College Station, Texas.